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Shooting Blanks posted:Depends, is it someone you want to sleep with? Are you sure it's actual flirtation and not just pandering for tips? Eh id say that would be putting the cart in front of the horse there, I tip well anyways. Nah she just gave me her number and wants to hang this weekend. Just seemed a bit much to be pandering for tips
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nthalp posted:Eh id say that would be putting the cart in front of the horse there, I tip well anyways. Nah she just gave me her number and wants to hang this weekend. Just seemed a bit much to be pandering for tips No such thing as too much pandering for tips.
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navyjack posted:No such thing as too much pandering for tips. Fair enough. Normally I assume when you have to ask yourself, and tips are involved the answer is pretty much always no. TehRedWheelbarrow fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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Nov 8, 2014 13:53
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Does she want to hang with you... at her bar? While she's working?
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:Does she want to hang with you... at her bar? While she's working? Man fun story, I totally fell for that one when I first was in the military. Nah mentioned she wants to hang and have a bonfire or something at her new place.
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I once had a stripper in Vegas who spent the whole night sitting in my lap, turning down other requests for lap dances to hang out with me. We chat for most of the night and she eventually tells me she has leukemia and essentially dances to pay her medical bills. I felt terrible for her. She gave me her number and told me to call her tomorrow and as I was telling my buddies the story on the way back to the hotel, the cab driver laughed so hard he almost crashed the loving cab. But don't worry nthalp, I'm sure there's a way better chance that your barlady wants to lay you down by the fire, than there is that she's trying to trick you into a fake party where she can harvest your organs for the black market.
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nrr posted:
I'll keep an eye out for bathtubs full of ice. Appreciate all y'alls professional opinion
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She doesn't want to hang out with you at work. Just go be normal and if it sucks back out and leave. In news: I've got my irons potentially in the wrong fires at my current 9-5, and if so, could be out of a job before year's end, and would be looking to get back behind the wood. A sick part of me wants to get shitcanned and get back to it. The pay was definitely always better, even if the management was just as bad. Ha.
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Bartenders: we sure don't want to gently caress anyone and would never consider using the workplace to get to know people. No siree.
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The bar I go to has one of those drink robots and it keeps beeping at me. Does that mean it likes me and I should pursue, or is it just doing it for tips?
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well to be fair it did turn out she likes texting me and telling me to bring my friends to the bar when she's working.. I'm feeling a real intimate connection there. *beep*
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Does she have a "following"? I love it when bartenders brag about their "following", move to a new bar and nobody follows them  Welp it's the off season for me now, won't be getting that sweet tip percentage until spring 
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leica posted:Does she have a "following"? I love it when bartenders brag about their "following", move to a new bar and nobody follows them apparently I joined a fan club yes...
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leica posted:Does she have a "following"? I love it when bartenders brag about their "following", move to a new bar and nobody follows them Surprising. I'd have expected a holiday bump from all the folks coming down to escape the snow.
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Nah it's just the opposite, during the holidays and winter in general it's dead. The snowbirds come down, but they don't stay at beach resorts, they stay in their trailers/condos/timeshares. We'll get a little push on new years and that's about it. Spring break is when it picks back up again. Contrary to popular belief, Florida isn't all that great during the winter, yeah it's warmer but people aren't going to waste their vacation time on temps in the 50's/60's with the Gulf too cold to swim in when they can come in the spring or fall and the weather is perfect and the Gulf is warm.
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Hi, thread. I've been feeling pretty burnt out lately and decided to go back and read through this hoping to find.. something. A rekindling of the fire, some inspiration, some nostalgia to remind me why this is an awesome gig and why I love it. I dunno which of those I found but I do feel better. Thanks guys.
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In the two weeks since the last post someone else got up early ten times, had four days off, got one paycheck, and wore pants almost the whole time
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I mean no disrespect to the people that live it; they make more money, expect to eat dinner within the same couple of hours, and can fall asleep with regularity with their arms around their significant other if they're lucky.
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But they go out and drink and think the person with a rag in their back pocket has it all. Suck it up, you'll be okay.
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i actually did a bartend tonight for the first time in about 2 months feels good man
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I did a bartend a couple months back for my last job. Felt good, made money, got my butt rocked.
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Dirnok posted:Hi, thread. I've been feeling pretty burnt out lately and decided to go back and read through this hoping to find.. something. A rekindling of the fire, some inspiration, some nostalgia to remind me why this is an awesome gig and why I love it. I dunno which of those I found but I do feel better. Thanks guys. Burn out happens yo. I quit bartending after getting burned out, didn't go back to it for almost ten years. I'm happy now doing it part time, dunno if I'd want to do it full time again although I have definitely thought about it. I'm just getting too old, my back can't take 40-50 hours a week of high volume bartending. It would have to be at a chill place that wasn't to busy but then I wouldn't make as much.
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Yeah, I like keeping my weekly bartending shift even though I consult 5-6 days. Keeps me honest, and flush with dirty dirty cash.
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Vegetable Melange posted:Yeah, I like keeping my weekly bartending shift even though I consult 5-6 days. Keeps me honest, and flush with dirty dirty cash. Is this the bartender thread or the escort thread?
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After leaving to move across the country, I have been given the honor of bartending my old place's Christmas party and I can't loving wait. Those things are fantastic.
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mooyashi posted:After leaving to move across the country, I have been given the honor of bartending my old place's Christmas party and I can't loving wait. Those things are fantastic. Fuuuuuuuucking jealous of that man. Make that silly cash. Silly dirty cash. The one or two private holiday gigs at my old place used to be ragers and flush with money. Except NYE. That poo poo sucked.
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Being private is really the best part. A guarantee of good people? Unheard of.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Is this the bartender thread or the escort thread? Anybody here who isn't a whore for the right price is kidding themselves, c'mon. Now get back to taxiing old ladies to the hospital, I've got a photoshoot for an amaro.
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Cover tonight is double that of a normal show. No drink specials, no champagne toasts, and the band is led by a talented motherfucker who of course also works as a bartender. I loving love this place. Good luck tonight everyone.
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I hate bartending because alcoholics expect me to remember every little thing about their lives. I honestly had a customer get offended that I didn't remember their garden arrangement.
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bikesonyx posted:I hate bartending because alcoholics expect me to remember every little thing about their lives. I honestly had a customer get offended that I didn't remember their garden arrangement. If they're drunk enough they won't even remember that they told you. So then, they'll tell you again! And again! And again! That's the secret.
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FaceEater posted:If they're drunk enough they won't even remember that they told you. So then, they'll tell you again! And again! And again! That's the secret. I've seen acquaintances of mine on, literally, a three-minute drunk-loop. Holy gently caress does that get old fast.
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Did my first ever New Years bar shift as a bar back in the awesome bar I work in. Felt like poo poo at the start due to a compounded hangover from a very heavy festive period, but it was a lot of fun once we got into the swing of it. We stopped serving for 15 minutes at midnight to drink prosecco and do all the usual New Years poo poo, and we'd had a large well illuminated sign up saying so all night. Of course there was a bar of dick heads shouting about it. Incredibly satisfying when our fairly intimidating boss comes down to shout at people.
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We had a 5.5hr open bar at my place. $105. You also got some pretty awesome food as well. First guy in the door scoffs as me for not serving Johnnie Walker Blue Label at our open bar. Rotten Cookies fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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Rotten Cookies posted:We had a 5.5hr open bar at my place. $105. You also got some pretty awesome food as well. well it would only take like 3 tickets who drink and eat nothing to pay for the bottle, so why not man?!
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E: Nevermind, I got my JW Blue and Green mixed up
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Frequent Bar Patron here, and I just wanted to talk about South Brooklyn & Outer Borough bars as the bar culture here is quite different than manhattan/regular bars, and it's something I haven't seen anywhere else in the world. First of all, neighborhood bars that don't do buybacks, usually get avoided like the plague. Bars that don't do *enough* buybacks get avoided like the plague. 3:1 is standard, 2:1 is for regulars. A bar that does good buybacks/free shots "Takes care of you". Also, a commonly tradition (especially among older dudes) is you order a drink and throw 40-60$ on the table after you order the first drink, and you leave it there for your stay. If you order a round of shots you just point to your money pile, and it gets take out of it. The implicit deal is that anything that's left over is the bartenders' (within reason of course, if you just get one drink it's ok to take your ten back). A bartender will also either knock on the bar instead of taking money to show that it's a buyback, or put an upside down shot glass next to your drink to show that your next one is on the bar. Also it is traditional for local bars to throw holiday parties, where they sometimes have a 2 hour open bar for all their regulars (usually on a weekday night, before xmas). Some bars do free food & catering instead of an open bar, but usually give you a 1:1 buyback on that night. Here are some tips I've learned for drinking neighborhood outer borough bars: Always introduce yourself to the bartender, (if it's slow enough to do so). Don't elaborate that you're a regular, just "Hi, I'm so and so, nice to meet you". Tip around 1/2-Full value of the drink for every buyback. Cash on the bar always gets you more buybacks. Younger bartenders on crap shifts in these bars will give away the bar out of boredom. I've found a few bars in Manhattan that work like this too, but it's mainly Union bars, (electricians, firemen, police, sanitation, etc...), and they're few and far between. Also, if a bar says 'Cash Only' or it has mechanical register... You're likely in the right place for this. Oh and I laughed when I saw bartenders saying never do shots with customers. It's pretty much required in most local bars here. It's ok for the bartender to refuse, but all bartenders will occasionally do shots with patrons, and if you're a regular you always order an extra shot for every round for the bartender. Does this type of culture still exist anywhere else in the world?
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Yeah, pretty much all of Northern CA. I hate the leaving the pile of cash on the bar though, because other people will steal it or try to put their money on top of it to shortchange the bar. Don't leave your money on the bar and walk away to piss or smoke and expect me to watch it for you. It also makes the bar look cluttered. Unattended cash on the bar is a tip.
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Armagnac posted:First of all, neighborhood bars that don't do buybacks, usually get avoided like the plague. Bars that don't do *enough* buybacks get avoided like the plague. 3:1 is standard, 2:1 is for regulars. A bar that does good buybacks/free shots "Takes care of you". Also, a commonly tradition (especially among older dudes) is you order a drink and throw 40-60$ on the table after you order the first drink, and you leave it there for your stay. If you order a round of shots you just point to your money pile, and it gets take out of it. The implicit deal is that anything that's left over is the bartenders' (within reason of course, if you just get one drink it's ok to take your ten back). A bartender will also either knock on the bar instead of taking money to show that it's a buyback, or put an upside down shot glass next to your drink to show that your next one is on the bar. Chicago dives, all of the above applies.
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Buybacks don't apply much here because we don't need to do it, we are a tourist driven bar. However we tend to do it for the few local regulars because they keep us going in the off season, and there's no code just "this one's on the house" Cash on the bar is dumb because I somehow end up being responsible for it. Keep it in your drat wallet or start a tab. And I usually don't do shots because I take pain killers and that would be very bad. Sometimes I do dummy shots
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